ScrapSoul

Monday, February 29, 2016

I can not think of a subject harder to scrap than Easter. I hate dislike all the pastelly colors, I am not charmed by all the egg and bunny embellishments so it is always a hard one to scrap.

But we do have a great Easter tradition: Each year on Easter Saturday we have an egg hunt with a group of friends and a REAL Easter Bunny. So I do have great photo's to scrap. So I did take the challenge of scrapping somer Easter pics and using the sketch from Let's Scrap

This is what I came up with.Must admit that I am pretty content with the result even though there no bunnies or eggs to be found.
The title was cut with my Silhouette. I have an Ali Edwards Easter stamp and I used that one to make it inot a cutting file. Love how it turned out. Yeah, do not even ask why I own an Easter stamp. Not sure myself either......

Sunday, January 24, 2016

We all have a favorite colour and mine is blue for sure. But if it comes to scrapping I find myself using kraft all the time. Just love the versatility. I can look classy, playful and more jsut depending on what other materials you use.

I played along with the challenges on SU-per Challenges a few times. A lot less than I wanted but hey, sometimes life just gets in the way. Looking for something to scrap I was on their blog and saw they are stopping. Too bad, loved their challenges and sketches. But then again, I do know how much time it takes to keep a site going. Runnig Let's Scrap was sometimes more than just a hobby.....

So I am participating in one of their last challenges...... sad to see you girls go......

In May 2014 I got to spent five days with my dear son in Paris. We had an amazing time, Saw a lot and did see and do so many things. Scrapping these pics makes me realize that we need to plan another city trip.

The pics are from the Eifel Tower by night. An amazing piece of architecture. A tower that was dreaded by many Parisians. They even handed a petition to the city to take it down. They said it was monstrous...... It actually got saved by radio. Eifel, who designed it, got 20 years for the twoer in the city before it was going to be used as scrap metal. In those 20 years the Eifel Tower was used as an antenna for the different radio stations. By the time those 20 years were over the city decided it was a very cheap way to keep the radio going and it got never taken down for scrap metal.

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Scrapped again. We all know how teenagers are when it comes to taking photo's. They either want to pose with one of those stupid duck faces or do not want to be on it at all. In the fall of 2014 my dear son went to London with his friend Fay and her mom. Unfortunately I was not able to join them. They did not spend a whole lot of days there but they had a blast and came home with some great photo's. A few of them showed the teenagers in them and I finally scrapped them....

Sunday, October 18, 2015

I love sketches, I really do. But sometimes I look at what I made using the sketch and wonder where I wandered off...... Yesterday I made my first Christmas card for this year and it did not look like the sketch from Su-per Challenges at all, not even a little.
Today I made another Chrsitmas card using a different sketch from SU-per Challenges and again: Where did I loose the sketch? Must admit, I did use the sketch, I honestly did. Maybe I got inspired by the star on the sketch, the text in the box or maybe something else. Not really sure.
Enough talking typing:

Okay, I am back. Back from spending 6 days in Budapest and back with a new card.
I made this card with a sketch from SU-per Challenges. I actually made two with this sketch but I do not think they would have approved the first one I made......It was surely a very loose interpretation of the sketch. But I have to say this: It was my first Christmas card for this year. I got started on time this year

Tuesday, October 06, 2015

I was not a card maker until I started desigining the card sketches for Let's Scrap. Since then not one store bought card left my house. I love how simple and yet stunning some cards can be and how you can brighten up someone's day with a tiny gesture. As for me; digital cards will never replace the ones delivered by the mailman to your doorstep.

With the flower die I used for this card I used my Tool 'n One made by Spellbinders. Such a great and nifty tool that really saves me a lot of time every time I use it. If you need to think of a crafty Christmas gift: Perfect pick!

I made this card for the colour challenge at SU-per Challenges. The colour combo was a hard one at first but I really love the result. There's a good friend that will be very happy when it will land on the door mat. This was the colour combo given to use: